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February - March 1999 

Our first stop was in the Maldives, a perfect getaway from wedding and work stress, and a good place to forget about what we would face in Nepal -- long treks at high altitude with tasteless food and bad accommodations.

 

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Beach Villas.  These are the first few water villas at the Four Seasons Resort at Maldives Kuda Huraa. We stayed in one of these for the last few days of our trip to the island. The villas are absolutely incredible:  snorkelling off the back patio, complete privacy, outdoor shower and views almost all the way to Madagasgar.  Highly recommended.

 

DivingThis is a picture of Rich on the dive boat at Kuda Huraa. The dive operation here is awesome. Although the Maldives are one of the top dive destinations in the world, we never saw another boat in our dive area. One time there was another boat within 400 yards of us and our divemaster became quite annoyed and asked the boat driver to haul us out of there to his secret site. The diving is world class. We saw sharks on almost every dive, enough turtles to make you think they're not endangered, and all other sorts of funky sea creatures.

 

DanaThis is my lovely wife Dana enjoying the sunshine. Dana and I both agreed that Kuda Huraa was perhaps the greatest place we had ever been. I remarked at one point that I didn't think I had ever been so relaxed.

On the Beach.  This is a picture of us on the beach, using the tripod that we bought in Singapore on the way to the Maldives.  Promptly after taking this picture, Rich broke the tripod, necessitating yet another trip to the Orchard Road shopping district in Singapore to buy another tripod before traveling onto Nepal.

 

SunsetThis is a standard Maldivian sunset overlooking the pool at Kuda Huraa. We saw this sunset every night at dinner.

ViewHere's Dana hamming it up outside the lagoon-side cocktail bar. We watched several sunsets from here, beers in hand, listening to a three man acoustic band.

 

 

 

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